icrashedtheinternet wrote:
I just read the GCC Mission Statement and I see nothing there about conforming to international standards for programming languages. Why does the GCC Mission Statement not include conforming to internationally accepted standards? Its very counterproductive not to use standards.
Of course not including it in the mission statement does not mean that it is not a requirement, so the last sentence is a bit of a non-sequitur. To me, implementing C means implementing the standard, and I think that this is the general approach of gcc, so it is not entirely clear it should be explicit in the mission statement. Ultimately the more important goal is to implement a widely useable compiler, to the extent that includes following the standard, that's what will happen.
-John Burak
